Al Gore’s Speech Surrounded by a little hypocrisy
Posted by Rodney | Posted in America | Posted on 17-07-2008
Tags: Politics
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Great little video
Josh Baer sings with the Charlotte Symphony!
Posted by Rodney | Posted in America | Posted on 09-07-2008
Tags: charlotte singing patriotic friends national anthem, Music
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Our good friend won a contest to see who would sing the “Star Spangled Banner” with the Charlotte Symphony for the 4th of July concert.
Josh is a graduate of Southeastern FWB College and Bob Jones University . He is the music minister and associate pastor at Cramerton FWB Church in Cramerton, NC.
Here are some links to the contest and to Josh Baer’s entry and successful audition.
http://www.charlottesymphony.org/emailclub/sing.htm
Here he is singing
National Anthem with Charlotte Symphony from Golf Guy on Vimeo.
Hey man! Congratulations again!
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You need to read this article — Sex and the CT « The Shepherd’s Scrapbook
Posted by Rodney | Posted in America, Christianity, New Evangelicalism | Posted on 01-07-2008
Tags: Pastoral Issues, Preacher, Sexuality, Sin
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An excellent summary of a more disturbing trend over at www.christianitytoday.com
It has not been that long ago since the online editor was praising her nightly ritual of watching sitcoms and going to bed with Jay and Dave in her editorial section at the start of the weekly Christianity Today updates. I wrote a nice email asking if she was serious or just being hyperbolous for effect. I am still waiting on a reply.
Click below and see the excellent synopsis.
Sex and the CT « The Shepherd’s Scrapbook
Sex and the CT
Here’s an update on the Sex and the City and Christianity Today movie review ordeal…
Sex and the City was an HBO television series (1998-2004) that won 7 Emmy Awards.
The SATC movie (rated R) was released on May 30 with more of the same, what the Chicago Tribune labels “outré fashion, casual sex and dubious cocktails” and “plenty of eye candy for the ladies (think naked men and haute couture).” Not your typical Christian movie.
However, Christianity Today’s Camerin Courtney wrote a fairly explicit and positive review, giving SATC 3 stars (CT gave Prince Caspian 2.5 stars).
People criticized CT for positively reviewing a “pornographic movie.”
Carolyn McCulley (a CT contributor herself) writes an exceptional response to the CT review: “the pot with the proverbial frog has boiled over. The changes that have come about with the introduction of ’sex positive’ or ‘porn positive’ third-wave feminism, beginning in the early 1990s, have now so thoroughly permeated our culture that even evangelicals fail to see the trend or the danger.”
CT responded to the swarm of criticism by defending the original review.
Then yesterday Ted Slater of Boundless called CT to *repent* over the review (and the defense of the review) in an article simply titled “Christianity Today Relishes Sexual Perversion.”